Re: SVG Book

Actually went through earlier emails and failed to find anything that
says the location of the CVS repo of the book.  Has this been done or
still needs to be done?

I'm fine with CVS, just point me to the location and help me get set
up with an account.

Please :)

Jeff

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I'm not sure if I need a CVS account, I might already have one.
>
> Can you give us a walkthrough on how to check out the files and get started?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>> Hi, Folks-
>>
>> At the risk of being a bit of a killjoy... the only version control system
>> supported by W3C's systems team (right now) is CVS, and while it's not
>> ideal, I think it's more than ample for the simple needs of getting this
>> book done.  Let's not bury the real task we're trying to accomplish
>> --getting the book ready for publication-- under the means of doing so.
>>
>> If you need a CVS account, let me know.
>>
>> Regards-
>> -Doug Schepers
>> W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
>>
>>
>> Manuel Strehl wrote (on 10/14/09 6:05 PM):
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd go with GIT on github, but would also be happy with SVN or any other
>>> VCS. A further use case for branching, by the way, would be translations.
>>>
>>> Another possibility (just to be mentioned) would be to transfer the book
>>> to Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org) and edit it there. Disadvantage:
>>> Losing control. Advantage: Broader interest from potential co-authors.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Manuel
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff Schiller schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Jon A. Cruz<jon@joncruz.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  However... the main benefit can come from branches for development
>>>>> tweaking.
>>>>>  As each person/group/company/whatever works on refining a test or sets
>>>>> of
>>>>>  tests, they can be checking into a branch as they go along. This allows
>>>>> for
>>>>>  better collaboration, and avoids the problem of someone "breaking" the
>>>>>  trunk. This also allows for easier experimentation and a "safer" way
>>>>> for
>>>>>  newer contributors to get involved with less risk. A DCVS such as git
>>>>> or bzr
>>>>>  can really help in such cases.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I agree that publishing in-progress branches is a BIG benefit of a
>>>>  DVCS and I'm really in favor of this.
>>>>
>>>>  However, I was reminded this morning of another big benefit of
>>>>  Subversion:  the ability to set MIME types.  This may not sound like
>>>>  much, but for web apps (and for web documents) this can be a big
>>>>  advantage as you can browse directly to the trunk and see the
>>>>  progress.  This is what we do in SVG-edit:
>>>>
>>>>  http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/editor/svg-editor.html
>>>>
>>>>  We also use branching in SVN:
>>>>
>>>>  http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.1/editor/svg-editor.html
>>>>  http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.2/editor/svg-editor.html
>>>>  http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.3/editor/svg-editor.html
>>>>
>>>>  We also use one tag to indicate the latest stable release (currently
>>>> 2.3):
>>>>
>>>>  http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/stable/editor/svg-editor.html
>>>>
>>>>  When 2.4 is released, I will delete the 'stable' tag and re-create it
>>>>  pointing to the 2.4 branch.
>>>>
>>>>  The fact that this is all accessible by a web browser without
>>>>  requiring the user to check out any code is, I think, a big advantage.
>>>>
>>>>  Do any of the DVCS allow this?  I'm thinking of Mercurial since
>>>>  GoogleCode supports that as well as SVN, but I'm not familiar enough
>>>>  with it.  I admit that this may not be as big of a factor with the SVG
>>>>  book or the Torture Tests since they will presumably be published
>>>>  elsewhere when finished.
>>>>
>>>>  Though it may sound like it, I'm really not trying to push Subversion
>>>>  and I'm willing to go with whatever system we all agree on.  Just
>>>>  trying to gather facts.
>>>>
>>>>  Jon, do you want to take the lead on investigating the best option for
>>>>  either of these projects in terms of where to host them and the DVCS
>>>>  to go with?
>>>>
>>>>  Regards,
>>>>  Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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